it's just not the same;
coming to study and staying for good are two very different situations.
when you come to study, you have in your mindset that you're here on an adventure or a getaway from your ordinary everyday life at the same time knowing with certainty that you belong in your original hometown where your life is generally built there and where friends and family still have you placed in their lives, with no doubt at all.
but when it's for good, you've come to a new different culture and you're forced to adapt to circumstances that seem so unreal with no choice because this is your new home where you're most probably going to start a whole new life here with almost no turning back but striving forward towards another tomorrow. people that were once in your life in your hometown start moving on with their own lives and you start living out your own.
you can never have the best of both worlds; that's the sad reality.